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Right? As another parent of a toddler, neither I nor any other parent I know of toddlers are getting as much sleep as we’d like want…

Yes they wake up in the middle of the night, but ideally you try and put them down to sleep and enforce a regular bedtime, which is prime sleep hygiene.

Hate to ask but did you ever try sleep training? We started it super early after about 6 months and the only times our daughter has issues is rare. She will sleep the entire night most nights.

Iirc 6 months is the recommended time to do it, as later on they've formed more attachments to parental figures.

No, we haven't gone down that route ourselves. We did discuss it but decided against it. Partly because of how horrific it can be those first few nights, partly because we had friends who did it and had to redo it every time they hit a regression, and partly because of studies which suggest that the baby doesn't actually get more sleep, it just stops crying when it wakes up.